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Paleotempestology Labpart of Cutting Edge:Introductory Courses:Activities Paleotempestology Lab: this lab activity is designed to help students gain experience in relative and absolute dating techniques as well as a sense of how scientific investigations proceed.

Is There a Trend in Hurricane Number or Intensity?part of Cutting Edge:Hurricanes-Climate Change Connection:Activities This lab guides students through an examination of the hurricane record to determine if there is a trend in hurricane intensity over the past 40 years and introduces some issues related to statistics and ...

US Historical Climate: Excel Statisticalpart of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Mathematical and Statistical Models:Mathematical and Statistical Models Examples Students import US Historical Climate Network mean temperature data into Excel from a station of their choice and use Excel for statistical calculations, graphing, and linear trend estimates. -

Understanding the Carbon Cycle: A Jigsaw Approachpart of Activities In this "jigsaw" exercise, each student is assigned one of five geochemical processes in the carbon cycle to research, fully understand, and then explain to others in groups of five. At the end of class ...

Exploring the Link between Hurricanes and Climate using GCM Resultspart of Cutting Edge:Topics:Hurricanes-Climate Change Connection:Activities This activity requires students to examine global climate model output available online and consider the potential impact of global warming on tropical cyclone initiation and evolution. As a follow-up, students ...

Carbon Dioxide Exercisepart of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Examples Students work in groups, plotting carbon dioxide concentrations over time on overheads and estimating the rate of change over five years. -

The Modern Atmospheric CO2 Recordpart of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with Data:Examples Students compare carbon dioxide (CO2) data from Mauna Loa Observatory, Barrow (Alaska), and the South Pole over the past 40 years to help them better understand what controls atmospheric CO2. -

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Choosing Paperspart of Cutting Edge:Complex Systems:Teaching Activities A procedure for having students dive directly into the literature to select papers that are appropriate for the class as a whole to read and discuss. The activity provides constraints and a format for sorting the ...

Trace Gases: Stella II Mac and PCpart of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Mathematical and Statistical Models:Mathematical and Statistical Models Examples This Stella model allows students to learn about chemical mass balance in the atmosphere and apply this to atmospheric chlorofluorocarbon and carbon dioxide concentrations. -

Daisyworld: Stella Mac or PCpart of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Mathematical and Statistical Models:Mathematical and Statistical Models Examples After constructing a Stella model of Daisyworld students perform guided experiments to explore the behavior of Daisyworld to changes in model parameters and assumptions. -

Forecasting Lake Effect Snow in Lake Superior regionpart of Cutting Edge:Hurricanes-Climate Change Connection:Activities This exercise is designed to present the realistic problems of forecasting weather. Lake effect snows are hard to forecast because they depend on information that isn't part of the regular set of information ...

Climate Change and Atlantic Hurricanes: A GIS Inquirypart of Cutting Edge:Hurricanes-Climate Change Connection:Activities Students make hypotheses about how hurricane numbers, locations, or intensities have been changing, and then use hurricane tracks, wind speed, barometric pressure, and dates to test their hypotheses.

Hurricane Trackingpart of Cutting Edge:Hurricanes-Climate Change Connection:Activities This is a homework assignment that focuses student attention on ongoing hurricane/tropical storm development, often during the height of hurricane season. The students are directed to a web site (I like ...

Hurricane Investigationpart of Cutting Edge:Hurricanes-Climate Change Connection:Activities This is a simple homework assignment that will reinforce topics discussed in lecture as well as enabling students to search and analyze information on the web.

Intro to Environmental Geology Writing Assignmentpart of Cutting Edge:Student Learning: Observing and Assessing:Activities with Rubrics Students in an introductory environmental geology class research the Dust Bowl, analyze information and data and develop a written argument.

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